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Sexual Offending: Theory, Research, and Prevention is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), DOAJ. Published by PsychOpen.
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ISSN 2699-8440Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: PsychOpen
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 426 / 1162 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Clinical Psychology | 204 / 314 | 35th | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 400 / 580 | 31st | Q3 |
| Applied Psychology | 183 / 258 | 29th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Sexual Offending: Theory, Research, and Prevention is Q2 in Law (rank 426 of 1162), Q3 in Clinical Psychology (rank 204 of 314) and Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 400 of 580), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Sexual Offending: Theory, Research, and Prevention is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2, 63rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.278, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Sexual Offending: Theory, Research, and Prevention is published by PsychOpen. Its ISSN is 2699-8440.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sexual Offending: Theory, Research, and Prevention has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #362 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Sexual Offending: Theory, Research, and Prevention published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 15. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 49 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Canada (41.5%), United Kingdom (16.7%) and United States (11.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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